Re: Package management, was: Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Tapio Kelloniemi
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:43:35AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 11/7/05, Tapio Kelloniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:26:00AM +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: > > > And I must admit that, before, I didn't notice the sentence about > > > Tapio using paco. My fault!

Re: libcolorspace (for gst-plugins) source tarball download?

2005-11-07 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
Randy McMurchy wrote: > S. Anthony Sequeira wrote these words on 11/07/05 15:44 CST: > >> The SF CVS version needed a patch to include stdlib.h in one of it's >> files. > > Hmmm... I didn't have to apply a patch last time I installed it, > but then I could have patched my copy I pulled down and

Re: libcolorspace (for gst-plugins) source tarball download?

2005-11-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote these words on 11/07/05 15:44 CST: > The SF CVS version needed a patch to include stdlib.h in one of it's files. Hmmm... I didn't have to apply a patch last time I installed it, but then I could have patched my copy I pulled down and then created a tarball, in which case

Re: libcolorspace (for gst-plugins) source tarball download?

2005-11-07 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
Randy McMurchy wrote: > The following command will retrieve the current SVN copy of > libcolorspace (lcs) and put it into a libcolorspace directory of your > current directory. Note, you must have the SVN package installed. > > svn co https://core.fluendo.com/lcs/svn/trunk/ libcolorspace > > I f

Re: libcolorspace (for gst-plugins) source tarball download?

2005-11-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote these words on 11/07/05 15:03 CST: > I do no think there is a newer version, I did a fairly extensive search > yesterday. I did come across the SVN version mentioned in your previous > posting, but the same problem applied, there is no single downloadable > tarball.

Re: libcolorspace (for gst-plugins) source tarball download?

2005-11-07 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> S. Anthony Sequeira wrote these words on 11/06/05 15:36 CST: >>> Attempting to install libcolorspace for gst-plugins. [...] >> Try the following commands to get the CVS version from SourceForge. >> This is how you download any CVS tarball fr

Re: libcolorspace (for gst-plugins) source tarball download?

2005-11-07 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
Randy McMurchy wrote: > S. Anthony Sequeira wrote these words on 11/06/05 15:36 CST: >> Attempting to install libcolorspace for gst-plugins. >> >> How does one download the latest sources from the given URL in the book? >> >> I installed CVS just to get this, but cannot find the magic incantatio

Re: Using the hint "Time"

2005-11-07 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:49:15PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > I dove directly into the hint without reading it all the way through > first and then got paranoid. Maybe I'm being over cautious on this > one, but I want to be right before I reboot. The hint is very old and useful mainly for educ

Re: Package management, was: Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/7/05, Tapio Kelloniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:26:00AM +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: > > And I must admit that, before, I didn't notice the sentence about > > Tapio using paco. My fault! > > > > Anyway, Tapio, the pkg-user management has the advantage of > >

Re: Problems mounting media

2005-11-07 Thread Giulio DaprelĂ 
On 11/7/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hdc > floppy -fstype=auto,rw:/dev/fd0 > These lines for autofs must be treated in a similar way as if they were in the fstab file (yes they're n

Package management, was: Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Tapio Kelloniemi
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:26:00AM +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: > And I must admit that, before, I didn't notice the sentence about > Tapio using paco. My fault! > > Anyway, Tapio, the pkg-user management has the advantage of > preventing a new installation (if it is done with a new user) to >

Re: Problems mounting media

2005-11-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/6/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. While the other data cd's are mounted normally, I cannot mount music cd's > on BLFS. The cd's have been checked against Windows XP on the same computer. > These are working normally there. Music is otherwise, working well on BLFS > in xmms

Re: Configuring tcp_wrappers

2005-11-07 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > The install instructions for tcp_wrappers indicates you need to > adjust the inetd.d files (and xinetd.d files) to call tcpd and pass > the actual inet server as an argument. For example: > change > server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd >to >

Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 11/7/05, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Dionisi wrote: > > Just a question. Are you using the package user hint? > > It helps alot in finding files installed with a certain package. > In fairness, so do all of the other package management schemes - this > is, after all, basically

Re: Problems mounting media

2005-11-07 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote on Sun, 06 Nov 2005: 1. While the other data cd's are mounted normally, I cannot mount music cd's on BLFS. What real reason do you need to 'mount' the music CD? I've never found a reason to. You can play them, rip them, do whatever you need to do to them, without

Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Lennon Cook
Luca Dionisi wrote: > Just a question. Are you using the package user hint? > It helps alot in finding files installed with a certain package. In fairness, so do all of the other package management schemes - this is, after all, basically the point of having package management. -- Lennon Victor Coo

Re: Gnome upgrade issues

2005-11-07 Thread Luca Dionisi
Just a question. Are you using the package user hint? It helps alot in finding files installed with a certain package. I have not installed GNOME yet, I'm going to. But for the other packages I found that hint very useful. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http